OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning and Individual Differences is 9. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
State scales in academic achievement: Validating measures of affect, learning experiences, and study-related appraisals	5299
What evidence-based learning activities help students acquire knowledge, correct confidence in their own knowledge, and accurate self-assessment?	156
Editorial Board	113
Cross-linguistic sharing of phonological awareness in word spelling among early Chinese-English literacy learners: A three-wave cross-lagged panel analysis	71
Editorial Board	59
Using collaborative interactivity metrics to analyze students' problem-solving behaviors during STEM+C computational modeling tasks	58
Female students and students from more affluent families benefit more from fear of failure in learning achievements: A study based on 77 economies	55
Scaffolding attention and perseverance skills in a diverse population of preschool children in Sweden	55
Self-regulated learning in preschool and primary school: The factorial structure of conditional strategy knowledge	54
Comparing relations among autonomy support, motivation, and academic success across face-to-face and pandemic online STEM learning environments	52
Exploring the dynamics of situated expectancy-value theory: A panel network analysis	51
Enhancing argumentative writing with data-driven learning: Exploring developmental trajectories and learner profiles	43
Social background as a moderator of immigration-related disparities in parent-child-activities and in early vocabulary	43
Socio-emotional skills matter for academic resilience: A global perspective	41
Learning from educational texts: is reduction in global text cohesion a desirable difficulty as structure building skill increases?	36
A meta-analytical comparison of gender differences in computational thinking education	36
Academic and sports motivations in sport-study programs: Cross-contextual relations and links with achievement	35
Exploring the heterogeneous development of intrinsic value in language arts among secondary school students through growth mixture modelling	34
To what extent do home numeracy practices and parental number talk relate to children's math skills? A pre-registered study in 5-year-old children	33
Self-regulation of motivation in university students – a longitudinal study of interindividual differences and intraindividual trajectories	32
Understanding the factors influencing college students' acceptance and adoption of chatbots for learning: A network analysis	31
Reading in print and digitally: Profiling and intervening in undergraduates' multimodal text processing, comprehension, and calibration	30
What matters for students' social and emotional skills: The associations with student, parent, and teacher growth mindsets?	29
What is the link between an early university entry offer and the academic and personal wellbeing outcomes of students in their final year of school?	29
Understanding momentary engagement in university students: Exploring the interaction between competence and value beliefs on emotions and cognitive engagement – A multilevel investigation	27

Parents' implicit intelligence beliefs about children's intelligence: Implications for children's academic self-concept and achievement in Maths, English, and French	27
Do socializers’ mindset beliefs matter for student mindset and achievement? A meta-analysis	25
Does the effectiveness of a reading intervention differ dependent on students' Spanish or English proficiencies?	25
The Simple View of Reading across different orthographies: Introduction to special issue	24
Comorbidity of reading and math learning difficulties in a Chinese sample	24
Does reflecting one's own ideas affect creativity? Metacognitive monitoring activation shows no effect on divergent thinking	23
Creativity from individual differences perspectives: A systemic approach	23
Dynamic relations between motivation and performance across content in a mathematics learning technology	23
Cooperative mindset and creative self-concept in higher education	22
Editorial Board	22
Children's attitudes toward mistakes: Profiles and associations with parental predictors and academic-related outcomes	22
Executive functions and multiple-text comprehension	22
Heritage-bilingualism and educational achievement among second-generation immigrants: Are all school subjects equal?	21
Dimensionality of executive functions and processing speed in preschoolers	21
Revisiting multiple pathways to achievement: Re-examining the roles of achievement goals in predicting grades through task values	21
Identification and characterization of high-achieving student subgroups using two methodological approaches: The role of different achievement indicators and motivational-affective characteristics	21
AI tools for systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses in educational psychology: An overview and a practical guide	20
Raising the bar: Testing prospective reciprocal relationships between multidimensional trait perfectionism and undergraduate academic achievement	20
Students’ expectancy-value profiles in the West and the East: Cross-cultural similarities and differences	19
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence in Generative Content for enhancing motivation in learning	19
On the relationship between creative potential and creative achievement: Challenges and future directions	19
A systematic review of data-driven learning research on language learning and teaching for pre-tertiary learners: Balancing qualitative and quantitative research	19
The role of intelligence in the development of metacognitive knowledge	19
Exploring and addressing concerns surrounding L2 grit: A longitudinal perspective	19
Editorial Board	19
Prospects in the field of learning and individual differences: Examining the past to forecast the future using bibliometrics	19
Reading comprehension for students with reading disabilities: Progress and challenges	19
Elementary school students' metacognitive knowledge and its effects on teacher judgments, school track recommendations, and school transitions	18
More is not always better: Profiles of perceived frequency of parental involvement among Chinese students and associations with resilience and academic achievement	18
Tender Shoots: Effects of a preschool shared reading and reminiscing initiative on parent-child interactions and for socio-emotional and self-regulation outcomes after school entry	18
Students' and schools' expectancy-value beliefs are associated with reading achievement: A cross-cultural study	18
The fluid relation between reading strategies and mathematics learning: A perspective of the Island Ridge Curve	18
The effects of programming interventions in early childhood: A meta-analysis	18
Transition from childcare to school: Surgency, center-based care and caregiver-child relationship predict self-regulation, social competence and well-being	18
Material incentives moderate gender differences in cognitive effort among children	18
The accuracy of performance judgements and academic achievement: A two-sample two-wave study of German primary and lower secondary school students	18
Mindfulness intervention for academic procrastination: A randomized control trial	18
Exploring individual's emotional and autonomous learning profiles in AI-enhanced data-driven language learning: An expanded sor perspective	17
A mediated model of study choice profiles and person-environment fit with bachelor's program as predictors of academic success in higher education	17
Weaker groupitizing abilities in magnitude perception in dyscalculia	17
Understanding the dynamics of EFL learner affective engagement with receiving peer feedback: A case study from the sociocultural perspective	17
“I can't focus now, I will study tomorrow” - The link between academic procrastination and resistance to distraction	16
Ink and pixels: Impact of highlighting and reading self-efficacy on adolescents' cognitive load, epistemic emotions, and text comprehension	16
A meta-analysis on the relation between handwriting and visual-motor integration	16
Linking parental restrictive mediation to adolescents' science achievement: A social cognitive theory perspective	16
Developing rule-based scoring methods that capture student progress in computational problem-solving in open, interactive tasks	16
Editorial Board	16
Exploring undergraduate students' challenge frameworks: A person-centered approach	16
The relationship between English language proficiency and academic performance among English learners: A subgroup analysis by home language background	16
Individual differences in fifth graders' math motivation – stability and change across the school year	16

How vocabulary breadth and depth influence bilingual reading comprehension: Direct and indirect pathways	15
What students learn depends on what we teach: Curriculum content coverage and student achievement in mathematics and science	15
Tailoring interleaved practice: Does adaptive sequencing boost the interleaving effect?	15
Connecting the dots: A psychometric network analysis of relations between students’ fraction and algebra knowledge	15
The role of teacher characteristics for instructional quality: A meta-analysis	14
The interplay between scientific motivation, creative process engagement, and scientific creativity: A network analysis study	14
Perceived goal structures and student outcomes: Consistency of motivational experiences within and across classrooms	14
Parental influences on the development of single and co-occurring difficulties in reading and arithmetic fluency	14
Beyond the average: How achievement goals shape both levels and daily swings in intrinsic motivation	14
Parental psychological control and preschooler's behavioral problems and pre-academic performance in China: The mediating role of executive function	14
Longitudinal relationship between mathematics learning engagement and children's mathematics achievement: Different roles of children's mathematics anxiety and positive parenting style	13
Mathematics achievement and learner characteristics: A systematic review of meta-analyses	13
PISA reading achievement, literacy motivation, and school burnout predicting Adolescents' educational track and educational attainment	13
Learning as retention; an examination of retention of self-derived knowledge through memory integration in a diverse sample of elementary students	13
Editorial Board	13
Student-perceived parental help with homework: Identifying student profiles and their relations with homework effort, procrastination, and achievement	13
Early literacy and executive function profiles in Spanish-English emergent bilinguals	13
Self-regulatory abilities as predictors of scientific literacy among children in preschool and primary school years	13
Who loses motivation and who keeps it up? Investigating factors for changes in motivational profiles across multiple domains	13
Linguistic challenges in science test items for students with specific learning disorders with impairments in reading and writing	13
The effects of the topic-specific and topic-general prior knowledge on learning from multiple complementary texts	13
Predictive validity of early child biological, language, family and rearing environment characteristics on developmental trajectories of reading from ages 6 to 12 years	13
Correlates of adolescents' profiles of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in the school context	12
Language and academic growth trajectories of English learners	12
Exploring relationships between individual differences and learning outcomes in data-driven learning: A meta-analytic path analysis approach	12
From survey to experiment: How growth mindset and teacher support shape online learning engagement in adolescents	12
Longitudinal links between need for cognition, achievement goals, and school grades: Testing a mediation hypothesis	12
Why do some students stay engaged? The longitudinal impact of personal growth initiative and future work self	12
Achievement goal profiles and reading-related outcomes in elementary students with and without reading difficulties	12
General cognitive and numerical precursors of mathematical difficulty in kindergarten children at risk for dyscalculia	12
The relationship between students' gender and their confidence in the correctness of their solutions to complex and difficult mathematics problems	12
Predicting students' short- and long-term academic achievement in higher education: A cross-classified multilevel study	12
Academic motivation of intellectually gifted students and their classmates in regular primary school classes: A multidimensional, longitudinal, person- and variable-centered approach	11
Beyond individual tests: Youth's cognitive abilities on their math and writing skills	11
Related but independent: Trait math anxiety and the developmental trajectories of state anxiety and arithmetic fluency	11
Editorial Board	11
Science motivation, academic achievement, career aspirations in early adolescents	11
Subject and time specificity of students' cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement at school	11
Mathematically high and low performances tell us different stories: Uncovering motivation-related factors via the ecological model	11
Word reading in monolingual and bilingual children with developmental language disorder	11
Structure, relationship, and determinants of monitoring strategies and judgment accuracy. An integrated model and evidence from two studies	11
Deciding to drop out of school during compulsory education: Testing developmental and contextual models in students from low-income families	11
On the nature, predictors, and outcomes of undergraduate students' psychological distress profiles	11
Math anxiety is associated with skipping problems and less help-seeking behavior after error commission	10
Exploring latent writing profiles and their connection to intervention responsiveness	10
Examining the influence of passage and student characteristics on test-taking strategies: An eye-tracking study	10
Editorial Board	10
Gamification of learning and instruction – Learning processes and individual differences	10
Gender differences in academic buoyancy: A meta-analysis	10
The longitudinal contribution of working memory and visuomotor integration to early and developing handwriting fluency	10
First-generation student pathways to persistence and degree attainment: The roles of deeper learning and self-regulated learning beliefs	10
Rational thinking as a general cognitive ability: Factorial structure, underlying cognitive processes, and relevance for university academic success	10
Reciprocal association between theory of mind and reading comprehension of narrative (but not expository) text in middle childhood: A latent change score approach	10
Chatbots in education: Hype or help? A meta-analysis	10
Capturing where the learning process takes place: A person-specific and person-centered primer	10
What drives the association between home chaos and school grades over time? A biometric cross-lagged panel approach	10
Early predictors of mathematics learning difficulty in rural Chinese children	10
Do performance goals and fixed mindset explicate the relations between stereotype threat and achievement? Examining differences between racially marginalized and White students in STEM	9
Adaptability vs. buoyancy: Which offers the greater protection against test anxiety and could relations be reciprocal?	9
Toward more robust and integrative research on learning and individual differences: Systematic literature reviews with and without meta-analysis	9
Developmental patterns of receptive vocabulary and reading comprehension from age 4 to 14: A sequential latent growth model design	9
Triggers for self-regulated learning: A conceptual framework for advancing multimodal research about SRL	9
Individual toddlers' interactions with teachers, peers, and the classroom environment in Danish and Dutch childcare: First validation of the inCLASS Toddler	9
Learning activities in technology-enhanced learning: A systematic review of meta-analyses and second-order meta-analysis in higher education	9
Early nonsymbolic proportional estimation strategies and their contributions to math achievement	9
Gender-segregated trajectories to a university major and career-related motivation	9
Effectiveness of embodied learning on learning performance: A meta-analysis based on the cognitive load theory perspective	9
Unscrambling creativity measurement: An invitation to better formalize the domain generality-specificity of creativity with psychometric modeling	9
Test preparation: the roles of expecting access to materials and test anxiety	9
Promoting metacognitive problem-solving among non-calculus-ready first-year engineering students	9
Students' social and learning behavior at school: Applying the generalized internal/external frame of reference model	9
What is creative in childhood writing? Computationally measured linguistic characteristics explain much of the variance in subjective human-rated creativity scores	9
Reality-based tasks for competency-based education: The need for an integrated analysis of subject-specific, linguistic, and contextual task features	9
Middle childhood social-emotional competencies mediate the effects of school-entry literacy and numeracy skills on secondary school reading and numeracy attainment	9
Trajectories in cognitive engagement, fatigue, and school achievement: The role of young adolescents' psychological need satisfaction	9
Instructional contexts and time in first-grade math achievement: Moderating roles of math and externalizing behavioral risk	9
Gender differences in young adults' mathematical performance: Examining the contribution of working memory, math anxiety and gender-related stereotypes	9
Perceived motivational support in elementary school: Perceptual agreement and its associations with academic outcomes	9
Editorial Board	9
Comparing parental and school pressure in terms of their relations with students' well-being	9